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Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About Comics
COMIC BOOKS! Join Kevin and Will Hines — two brothers, lifelong comics fans and kind of comedians — as they discuss the comics they have loved their whole lives! What we lack in accuracy we make up for in enthusiasm!
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Gamma Sops: Incredible Hulk #337
EPISODE 313 - We look at Incredible Hulk 337, where we finish up the crossover with X-Factor (X-Terminators?). We start with Hulk trapped in a block of ice and…
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Gamma Sops: Incredible Hulk #335-336
EPISODE 312 - We do a quick survey of Hulk 335 (non-Todd McFarlane art, but a nice creepy possession story) and then dig more deeply into Hulk 336, where he…
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Gamma Sops: Incredible Hulk #334
EPISODE 311 - The Incredible Hulk battles Half-Life, a brand new villain! Is he gamma-created? You know it! We are continuing are examination of the run by…
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Gamma Sops: Incredible Hulk #333
EPISODE 310 - We are three issues into the Peter David / Todd McFarlane run on Incredible Hulk! Todd is still relatively contained, but Peter is starting to…
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Gamma Sops: Incredible Hulk #332 - (reupload)
EPISODE 309: Continuing our coverage of the Peter David / Todd McFarlane run on The Incredible Hulk! We've got McFarlane's distinctive art style starting to…
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Gamma Sops: Incredible Hulk #331
EPISODE 308: The milksops begin a new season covering the writer Peter David / artist Todd McFarlane issues of the Incredible Hulk! Done before either of them…
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Who Watches The Milksops? Watchmen Chapter 2 (Animated Film)
Episode 307 - We wrap up our episode on Watchmen with a discussion of the animated film "Watchmen Chapter II" which was released to little fanfare (despite…
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Who Watches The Milksops? Chris Gethard "Rebuttal"
Our friend and regular guest Chris Gethard takes an episodes to deliver his quibbles with some flaws in Watchmen. You know Chris from his stand-up comedy, from…
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Who Watches The MIlksops? Watchmen #12
We examine the stunning conclusion of Watchmen with a dive into issue 12. After finishing this read, Kevin text Will "Watchmen is good" -- that's our take…
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Who Watches The Milksops? Watchmen #11 with Jordan D. White
We take a close look at Watchmen #11 with Marvel editor Jordan D. White! Jordan is the current editor of the Venom books, the former editor of the X-books and…
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Who Watches The Milksops? Watchmen #10 - Eric Berlatsky
This episode, we're joined by Eric Berlatsky, a professor of English who also happens to be a passionate fan of Watchmen. He's a lifelong comics fan who read…
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Power Pack #1-4: w/ guest Brian Hines
It's Christmas and that means all three Hines brothers are under one roof and that means all three Hines brothers (Will, Kevin and Brian) are on the podcast…
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Who Watches The Milksops? Watchmen 9 with Dan Gvozden (Amazing Spider-Talk)
CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of sexual assault figure heavily into this issue's plot. ------------------------------- EPISODE 301 - Dan Gvozden of the Amazing…
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Who Watches The Milksops? Watchmen #8 with Alex Zalben (Comic Book Club)
We welcome Alex Zalben of Comic Book Club podcast to discuss Watchmen issue 8. In this issue, the series becomes almost joyful as Nite Owl and Silk Spectre…
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Who Watches The Milksops? Watchmen #7 with Bryan Stratton (Marvel by the Month)
Bryan Stratton from the terrific Marvel by the Month podcast joins us to go over Watchmen #7, the issue where Nite Owl II and Silk Spectre get together! But…
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Who Watches The Milksop - Watchmen Animated Movie
We talk about the recent Watchmen animated movie and a little bit about the 2008 Zach Snyder film as well. Our blistering hot take: the comic is better!!! We…
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Who Watches The Milksops? Watchmen #6
Today we go over the merry, lighthearted life story of a little fellow called Rorschach. Gather the kids around and read them the story... no sorry, that's…
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Scott Aukerman Interview (Astonishing Spider-Man) - Excerpt
This is an excerpt of our interview with Scott Aukerman about his experience writing the new Astonishing Spider-Man comic. To hear the full one, subscribe at…
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Who Watches The Milksops? Watchmen #5
Rorschach gets captured! Also Ozymandias is almost murdered! And the entire issue has a symmetrical layout, something neither Kevin nor Will noticed for like…
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Who Watches The Milksops? Watchmen #4
It's the Dr. Manhattan on Mars issue! The man (god? thing? electro magnetic lifeform?) who lives in all time! Although he only relives his life up until things…
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Who Watches The Milksops? Watchmen #3
Watchmen #3! Dr. Manhattan is forced off of Earth because journalists are annoying! Take that, the media! We also see Laurie and Dan's friendship blossoming…
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Who Watches The Milksops? Watchmen #2
We continue our examination of Watchmen with issue 2! A funeral for a friend! Not a friend so much as a violent amoral psychopath - The Comedian! Writer Alan…
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Who Watches The Milksops? Watchmen #1
Today we are republishing a discussion on the first issue of Alan Moore/Dave Gibbon's landmark 1986 comic book Watchmen. We first released this on Nov 27…
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RIP John Cassady / Karl Moline
EPISODE 291 - We take a break from our regular seasons to pay tribute to two great comics artists who passed away recently: John Casasdy and Karl Moline…
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Human Milksop: The Tom King / Greg Smallwood Run
For our last episode on The Human Target, we go over the recent excellent run by writer Tom King and artist Greg Smallwood. Christopher Chance is back and this…
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Human Milksop: Human Target 19-21 - The Stealer
EPISODE 289 : End of the Peter Milligan run. We finish our coverage of the Peter Milligan run of the Vertigo series "The Human Target." The final story, "The…
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Human Milksop: Human Target 10-13
We continue our look at the excellent crime noir Vertigo series HUMAN TARGET. In these issues, our hero Christopher Chance gets involved in the seedy…
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Human Milksop: Human Target 7-9
EPISODE 287: Peter Milligan's run on Human Target continues to tackle tough, dark material, this time with a story about a group of domestic terrorists. We…
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FREE PREVIEW: The Milksops Create A Superhero Team
This is a 10ish minute preview of our "sop-scriber" episode in which Kevin and Will create a superhero team. If you want to become a sop-scriber, go to…
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Human Milksop: Human Target Regular Series 1-3
EPISODE 286 - After Vertigo published the four issue Human Target mini series, and after the original graphic novel, they started a short-lived but excellent…
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Human Milksop: The Final Cut OGN w/ Jordan Morris
EPISODE 285 - We welcome two time Eisner nominee comics writer Jordan Morris to this ep! Jordan is here to promote his new young adult comics novel Youth…
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J.M. DeMatteis: The DeMultiverse Volume 2
Acclaimed comics writer J.M. DeMatteis (Justice League International, Kraven's Last Hunt, Moonshadow) is back to promote his new Kickstarter for the second…
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Human Milksop: Human Target 1999 Limited Series
EPISODE 283: The Milksops begin their dive into Peter Milligan's early 2000s run on The Human Target. Created by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino in 1972 for DC…
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Cosmic Rays and Correspondence: FF 284
EPISODE 282 - We finish our coverage of John Byrne's FF with the issue where Sue Richards changes her name from The Invisible Girl to The Invisible Woman. It's…
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Cosmic Rays and Correspondence - FF 282 and 283
EPISODE 281 - We're approached the end of the John Byrne FF era. Franklin is having another prophetic dream, which is a six page plug for Power Pack, which the…
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Cosmic Rays and Correspondence - FF 280-281
We're nearing the end of our coverage of John Byrne's FF run. In one of the final stories, the (new) Hate Monger teams up with the (old?) Psycho-Man to create…
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Cosmic Rays and Correspondence: Just Correspondence
This is an all mailbag episode, including an email from Chris Gethard about our Ultimate Spider-Man coverage. Next week: FF#280!
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Cosmic Rays and Correspondence: FF 278-279
EPISODE 278 - Doom is back, sort of? At least his life story is back, in the form of memories being artificially implanted into a helpless child! This is the…
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Ultimate Milksops: Other Spidey Reboots
Episode 277 - As an epilogue to our season on Ultimate Spider-Man, we go over some other reboots of Spidey continuity. Well, some of them are reboots, some are…
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Ultimate Milksops: Ultimate Spider-Man #7
Episode 276 - We finish out our look at the first arc of Ultimate Spider-Man. In this issue, we get the rest of Spidey's first battle with this universe's…
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X-Men '97 Review: Preview
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Ultimate Milksops: Ultimate Spider-Man #6 w/ Elliott Kalan
In issue 6 of the Bendis/Bagley run, we get to see Actual Ultimate Spider-Man -- properly costumed, fighting bad guys and everything! Does this change Kevin's…
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Ultimate Milksops - Ultimate Spider-Man #5 w/ James III
The Milksops welcome TV writer / podcaster / comics creator James III to the show! You may know James as a co-creator / co-star of the Netflix sketch show The…
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Ultimate Milksops: Ultimate Spider-Man #4
Episode 273 - Continuing the Bendis/Bagley run -- we reach the big moment. Peter lets a criminal, who he easily could have stopped, run past. And his family…
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Ultimate Milksops: Ultimate Spider-Man #3
The Milksops continue their examination of Bendis/Bagley's Ultimate Spider-Man! Kevin likes it more on this reading, but is still frustrated by the slow pace…
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Ultimate Milksops: Ultimate Spider-Man #2
We keep going through this legendary run by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley. Will continues to like it, Kevin continues to think it's too slow. We both…
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Ultimate Milksops: Ultimate Spider-Man #1
We get into one of the most popular runs on a superhero comic ever: Ultimate Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley. An attempt to win over new…
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Cosmic Rays and Correspondence - FF 277
Two stories in one! The top half of each page details the return of Ben Grimm, and an almost-but-not-quite battle against the Dire Wraiths (who?) And the…
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Cosmic Rays and Correspondence - FF 274-276
We cover three more issues of John Byrne's run on FF: A check-on on The Thing while he's on the Secret Wars planet, a story of a tabloid getting a hold of…
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Cosmic Rays and Correspondence - FF 272-273
We pick right up where we left off with the FF going.. back in time! Wait, not, they are going SIDEWAYS in dimensions, but to the SAME TIME! A time where…
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Gabbin' 'Bout Giffen: Trencher
We close out our season on writer/artist Keith Giffen with a look at another of his creator-owned series: Trencher. Trencher is another crack of the "Lobo"…
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Gabbin' 'Bout Giffen: The Great Darkness Saga
We go back towards the beginning of Keith Giffen's career, when he was "just" an artist. Specifically we examine his work with writer Paul Levitz on the 1983…
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Gabbin' 'Bout Giffen: Hero Squared (w J.M. DeMatteis)
We continue our Keith Giffen coverage with a look at the creator-owner property he did in the 2000s, Hero Squared. Keith did this with his Justice League…
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Gabbin' 'Bout Giffen: Annihilation
Keith Giffen does mainstream crossover event, and does it well. Here we cover the 2006 epic war story that is Annihilation. The brainchild of editor Andy…
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Gabbin' 'Bout Giffen: The Heckler
What if a superhero acted mostly like Bugs Bunny? We now take you to another Milksop favorite: The Heckler. Though it was cancelled after only six issues…
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Milksops Holiday Episode: Watching Batman Movies
The THREE Milksop brothers (Will, Kevin and Brian) are home for the holidays and thus record an ep in person. They have a tradition of watching Batman movies…
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Gabbin' 'Bout Giffen: Lobo #1-4
Part ultraviolent anti hero, part parody of ultraviolent anti hero, Lobo was a phenomenon. Originally a side character in the Omega Men, this creation of Keith…
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Gabbin' 'Bout Giffen: Legion Five Years Later
We continue looking at the career of writer/artist Keith Giffen. This week we look at his "Legion of Super-Heroes: Five Years Later" story. Starting from their…
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Gabbin' 'Bout Giffen: Ambush Bug (1985 mini-series)
We begin our examination of acclaimed comics writer/artist Keith Giffen. Perhaps most famous as a co-creator of the 1980s run of Justice League (the "B…
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Spider-Man 2 Video Game Discussion
THWIP! We go deep -- too deep? -- on the new Spider-Man 2 video game. The Milksops were big fans of the first one. In fact, they each bought Playstations in…